Annex III of the EU AI Act is the list that changes everything about how you ship AI: high-risk use cases carry documentation, risk management, and conformity obligations that low-risk ones don't. It's specific, it's long, and it's the kind of list people skim past because their product "doesn't feel high-risk."
I built AnnexPath because the cost of misclassifying isn't a fine you see coming — it's the obligations you skipped showing up later.
30-second takeaway
- High-risk isn't about how dangerous your AI feels. It's about what Annex III says it's used for.
- The list is specific enough to check against — which means it's checkable before you build the wrong way.
- A "probably fine" guess is not a classification.
The list you skim at your peril
Recruitment, credit scoring, education, essential public services, biometrics — the categories in Annex III are ordinary business activities that happen to involve AI. A team building a resume screener can spend months on the model and never realize they're squarely in a high-risk category until a customer's procurement team asks for documentation they don't have.
Classification is the gate. Get it wrong and you've optimized for the wrong obligations.
What the tool gives you
You describe the use case. It maps it against Annex III and tells you whether it lands in a high-risk category, and which one. Not a legal opinion — a structured read that tells you where to point a human before you commit architecture to the wrong assumption.
AnnexPath runs in the browser, no account, no key. Describe the use case and classify it before you sign.
FAQ
What is AnnexPath?
A classifier that maps a described AI use case against Annex III of the EU AI Act to flag high-risk categories. No account, no key.
A clear classification means I'm safe?
It tells you which obligations to plan for. Whether you meet them is the next step — this is the gate, not the finish line.
Is this legal advice?
No. Decision-support for classification, not a legal interpretation.
Author's Process
This product was built with AI coding tools. The work was encoding the Annex III categories as checkable criteria instead of prose nobody re-reads.
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